Research and policy

Your research reports are relevant, succinct and readable. They enable me to keep up-to-date with literacy trends without having to trawl through pages of documentation.
Barbara Band, LRC Manager, The Emmbrook School, Wokingham

Understanding the implications that research and policy have on practice is key. Below is a bank of articles which will inform and provoke thought regarding literacy practice in schools.

TTYB policy other policies:

• 19Apr2011
  Policy: The EYFS review is exhilarating stuff

  Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust, discusses the EYFS review.

• 12Jan2011
  Research: Do Babies Learn From Baby Media?

  A recently published study from the United States suggests that infants learn relatively little from DVDs which purport to teach them words.

• 10Jun2010
  Research: Buggies

  Talk To Your Baby commissioned research about the effects of forward-facing buggies on parent and child interaction.

• 26Mar2009
  Policy: Healthy Child Programme

  The Healthy Child Programme aims to provide an invaluable opportunity to identify families who are in need of additional support and children who are at risk of poor outcomes.

• 01Feb2009
  Policy: The child health strategy - healthy lives, better futures

  This wide ranging document sets out plans to improve children's health up to the age of 19, as part of a commitment made in the Children's Plan.

• 01Feb2009
  Policy: The Good Childhood Inquiry

  Final report from the independent Good Childhood Inqiury lead by the Children's Society

• 01Dec2008
  Policy: Better Communication

  An action plan to improve services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.

• 01Sep2008
  Policy: the next generation

  A policy report from the Early Years Commission, chaired by Dr Samantha Callaghan, Centre for Social Justice

• 01Dec2007
  Policy: The Children's Plan: Building Brighter Futures

  Extracts from the 2008 Children's Plan.

• 31Jul2007
  Policy: The Cambridge Primary Review - Research Survey 2/1a: Children's Cognitive Development and Learning

  The Cambridge Primary Review was an independent enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and based at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.